Deployment from URL

Question

Is it possible to deploy a remote war file automatically when my tomcat (6) boots? I am thinking about pointing my context.xml to http://myrepos/myapp.war, but could not find a example of this, what is the corret attribute to set?

Answer 1

I don't think that's directly possible.

You could alter the tomcat startup script to pull down the .war file before it starts, using e.g. wget